Russell Crowe would also fit the phone clue: https://www.google.com/search?q=russell+crowe+phone+assault&oq=russell+crowe+phone+assault&aqs=chrome..69i57.5743j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8
"Scandal - an action or event regarded as morally or legally wrong and causing general public outrage." http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/scandal
Which makes the Brad Pitt one all the more ridiculous (not a criticism of the quiz question but the idiotic public outrage when an adult chooses to end a relationship and start a new one).
Feel like Darren Sharper might also be an answer for the Cosby question. Arrested in 2014 for multiple counts of drugging and sexually assaulting women in several states.
Now, I wouldn't know, not having ever been to a porn theater (or having heard of them until now), but masturbating seems like a kind of strange thing for them to get upset about someone doing in there....I'm just saying. I guess public indecency and all, but given the circumstances--really? Oh well.
The fact that Cruise jumping on a couch was built up to what it was ranks as one of the stupidest things from the media. To call it a scandal is just ridiculous. Others have listed actual scandals that should rank before this overly-exuberant display.
Guess this is all before Bill Cosby
Someone hating on Bill Cosby in the 1980s wouldn't be considered "ahead of their time".